Help, Havent Lost A Single Pound

What you eat is a big part of it. Try cutting out proccessed foods and stick to lean meats fruits and veggies.

If you're eating your exercise calories it's important that you estimate your burn correctly. The equipment at my gym grossly overestimates for me which I realised once I got my HRM a few months ago. I'd subsequently been eating close to my maintenance calories for a month of so which is why I didn't lose any weight!!

My HRM, paired with my food scale, have greatly helped me to be more accurate with my calorie burns and intakes, and the weight has come off more consistently since then.

Like kr3851 said, make sure your exercise calories are being accurately measured or stick to eating just half of them, something like that.

With that much exercise, are you sure you haven't lost fat and gained muscle? How are your clothes fitting you?

If your burn is accurate then you may not be eating enough. In addition, try eating breakfast, that may help kick start your day.

Invest in a HRM and a kitchen scale to make sure your exercise and food calories are as accurate as possible.

Are you eating alot of carbs?? Eating a whole bunch of carbs will make you gain weight, or in your case keep on your weight.

Are you using a heart rate monitor to measure calories burned during exercise? You may be overestimating your exercise calories - especially if you are using what MFP calculates for calories burned. THis would be my guess based on a quick look at your diary. Your sodium also looks very high which can cause you to retain water.

Hey there, good for you for posting after 26 days...:-) Other posters here have good ideas. Try cutting out the KFC, the high fat items, the high sodium items. Watch the carbs. Go for whole foods, not pre processed or drive through. And yes, go a couple weeks without eating back exercise cals and see what happens. All of our bods are different, yours might just need a shake up to let loose of those pounds, and then watch out, you'll be losing before you know it!

-Terri

2+ hours a day is a lot and I'm a runner who runs about 1hour to 1:15 which is estimated to burn about 600 calories ( 6-7 miles runs)

Do you weight at night or the morning? It makes a huge difference and I would weight myself once a week in the morning. Now is your scale working properly? If there is nothing wrong with the scale it's either, you're exercising too much that your body is on starvation mode or your calorie calculation is off (which is very easy to mess up)

I recommend you check out Jorge Cruise's Belly Fat Cure book. You have a lot of sugars in your diet and I think that may be sabotaging your efforts. For me, if I ate that much sugar, I'd gain back my 30 pounds lost in a few weeks. Good luck!

First congratulations on your persistence - I have had similar experiences and they are tough.

I agree with many of the comments made already. Exercise calories burned tend to be grossly overstated - if you are not using a HRM to calculate, then I would eat back no more than 25-50% of those "burned" calories. And, your diet includes a lot of processed foods and empty calories. Cleaner would be much better, and more satisfying.

And, for me, I learned that I have to manage BOTH my calories and carb intake, and that I do not lose weight if my carb intake exceeds 10% of my total calorie intake. For me that means a 1,200/day calorie intake with a 120 carb gram intake. This means non starchy veggies, little to no fruit, and lean meat. I have proven this to myself time and time again. Not for everyone, but this is my reality. It may not be yours, but it might be worth a try.

I read your diary and it is pretty obvious why you are not losing any weight:

1. I doubt your extremly high daily exercise calorie burn. With your current weight and your damaged lung (and heart), you might not have the stamina right now to exercise that hard to burn so many calories. Something definitely is wrong with your calculation.

2. Your sodium intake is way too high and might also cause a long term problem for your heart and blood pressure, if you keep it up. You should try to reduce it radically!

3. You are not tracking your sugar intake in your diary so far. It is very important to do that and not go over limits. You might want to consider replacing the daily icecream session with a significant lower calorie snack. Try the Jello Mousse au chocolate . . . . 60 or 120 calories per snack only! Cut the ice cream and the Pepsi, if possible.

Good luck!

I am not able to exercise a lot due to foot problems but I do not eat back my exercise calories. Also, for me it is better to eat 3 meals a day of similar calorie count. Skipping breakfast is never a good idea. I eat approximately 1300 calories but then again, I am 60 years old and losing weight is more difficult as you age.

I reviewed you diary as well. You should try to avoid processed and fast foods as much as possible. You should try diet drinks instead of regular. Before joining MFP, I was able to loss 15 lbs within 1 month just by making wiser food choices. I kicked soft drinks and junk food to the curb until I was able to taste and get rid of it. I cheat every so often, but not daily. Otherwise, exercising will be in vein.